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Thus faith and hope getting hold of both ends of the promise, they
carry it safely ALL away.
Faith looks to Christ as dead, buried, and ascended; and hope to his
second coming. Faith looks to him for justification, hope for glory.
Faith fights for doctrine, hope for a reward; faith for what is in
the Bible, hope for what is in heaven.
Faith purifies the heart from bad principles, hope from bad manners.
2 Peter, 3:11, 14.
Faith sets hope at work, hope sets patience at work. Faith says to
hope, Look for what is promised; hope says to faith, So I do, and
will wait for it too.
Faith looks through the word of God in Christ; hope looks through
faith, beyond the world, to glory.
Thus faith saves, and thus hope saves. Faith saves by laying hold of
God by Christ; hope saves by prevailing with the soul to suffer all
troubles, afflictions, and adversities that it meets with betwixt
this and the world to come, for the sake thereof. Take the matter in
this plain similitude:
There was a king that adopted such a one to be his child, and
clothed him with the attire of the children of the king, and
promised him that if he would fight his father's battles and walk in
his father's ways, he should at last share in his father's kingdom.
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